EVE General Discussion

Greetings Space Warlords,

Just want to give you folks an update on the deployment of Time Dilation. As stated in the patch notes, we wanted to hold back on it until the general fallout of the release stabilized. We're nearing that point. Sadly, the mass test last Friday exposed a bug involving HUD gauges not updating properly after jumping into a previously-dilated system. A fix for that has been prepared, but we're on hold until it can be verified and deployed.

We're holding a mass test on Sisi this Thursday (8Dec) to verify the fix. Assuming that goes well and no other show-stoppers are found, the fix will deploy with Crucible 1.0.2. From there, we'll have a staged deployment of the Time Dilation feature where we turn it on selectively under supervision for a couple days before going cluster-wide.

I appreciate your patience while we roll this out responsibly.

I would like to ask if time dilation has any chance to slightly improve performance for low end computers-laptops. Just wondering, an answer from CCP or anyone that experienced it on test server will be appreciated. I will try to participate on next mass test to find out.

I would expect there to be some benefit during very large fights as there would be less going on in any given amount of time. I wouldn't bank on it though - the purpose of the feature is to keep the server responsive, any help to the client is a happy coincidence.

We do have some client optimizations in the pipe as well, but that's a different topic entirely.

Yes thats the reason i ask. Everything looks fine with many ppl on screen till the shooting begins. When shooting starts everything slows down. Well i hope it will benefit a little.

You can always turn those effects off to help performance

Supporting this. TiDi is one feature that really does have to work right first time on release.

PLEASE CCP, do it, please do it, please do it.

It's incredibly annoying to wait 30sec to target crap, to see your guns cycle when the fracking target is not there anymore, to re log 5min later and find out your ship isn't even not warping at the fight point anymore but at the fracking POS someone warped you in 10min sooner...

500+ man battle is just awfull, I'm not using fibre or cable but ADSL+ (20 mega) witch should not be bad at all considering I'm using hardware updated (by my self) and not older than 1 year knowing it's high end stuff (read the best it you can get out there whenever I change the smallest part).

I don't know if it has something to do with location and main servers (yeah the fracking economic politics irl that shift on everyone life), I don't know what the trouble is considering you guys stuff, from what I read, is clearly more than enough to make 1K +players battle fluid.

But please do something.

An update to my update:

We had another mass test last night in order to hopefully verify some speculative fixes to the problem (meaning we weren't certain we had it, but thought we might). That turned out to be a negative, sadly. On the plus side, I'm rather confident that the root of the problem with shields and such not updating has been identified. So that's kind of a big deal.

The bad news is that since we're rapidly approaching the holidays and folks going on vacation and such, any fix for that won't hit before January. So...that's where we stand there.

Thanks again for your patience, and I'm deeply sorry for the wait,
~CCP Veritas

So time dilation is going to take a while longer.... I am sure there is a joke in there somewhere

Thanks for the updates, and big thanks for not pushing it out before it's ready.

Keep up the good work, Optimus.